armless
"armless" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“armless” is uncommon English (frequency #76,540 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,540
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having no arms.
Corpus desk
Index EN-armless · armless · English
armless · rank #76,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,540
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Arica
Nearest frequency peer: Arica (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “armless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Araujo
Araujo
23,464 corpus weight
- Arcata
Arcata
23,463 corpus weight
- Arica
Arica
23,462 corpus weight
- armless
armless
23,461 corpus weight
- Artesia
Artesia
23,459 corpus weight
- arthroplasty
arthroplasty
23,458 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “armless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “armless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
armless is uncommon English at frequency #76,540 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having no arms.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for armless in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English armlees; equivalent to arm + -less. The correct English form is armless, spelled A-R-M-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Having no arms.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how armless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When you have been waited on by armless hands, and have had a short conversation with a cat, nothing can surprise you much.
Etymology
From Middle English armlees; equivalent to arm + -less.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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